Essam al-Buwaydhani

Essam al-Buwaydhani, also known as Abu Hammam, was the military chief of the Islamic Front from 25 December 2015, succeeding Zahran Alloush.

Biography
Essam al-Buwaydhani was born in Syria to a family of Sunni Muslims, and he was imprisoned at Sednaya prison by the Syrian Arab Republic for his beliefs in Islamism. During the Syrian Civil War he joined the Islamic Front and fought against the secularist government to implement sharia in the country, and on 25 December 2015 he was appointed to succeed military chief Zahran Alloush after he was killed in a Russian Air Force airstrike.